Elizabeth A. Wells completed her Doctorate in Musicology at Eastman, and is currently Music Historian, and formerly Dean of Arts and Picard-Bell Chair in Music at Mount Allison University (Canada's long-time top-ranked institution). Alongside her many professional accolades, such as winning the AMS Music in American Culture Award for her book on West Side Story, and the AMS Teaching Award for her revolutionary reinvention of the typical undergraduate Music History sequence, she has been coaching academic high-flyers and achievers for decades.